Ultimately, it was St Michael’s more polished forward division that earned the Blackrock club its first Cork U21 ‘A’ football title since 1976 in Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

Waterford GAA chiefs have confirmed they will not lobby the province to bring Munster senior championship hurling to Walsh Park in 2015.

THE original of a species, a Macroom bar which spawned a host of nationwide copies with its stone floors, exposed stone walls, brick and rough-hewn timbers, is about to change hands once again.